St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-01

removed to its new building at the Cor
ner OF Fourth and Cedar streets. This
will explain the situation. 1t means
that the rapidly growing business and
increasing circulation of the paper has
made necessary removal co larger and
more commodious quarters, and that a
new page III the history of the paper
has been turned over; that the GLoBE'S
horizon enlargeS, and that henceforth
1t marches on to completer journalistic
conquest of the great Northwest. 1t is
the same old story-another practical
Illustration of the revolutions of jour
naliSm. The lives of newspapers hang
upon the peoples favor, and the wrecks
that strew the path in all directions are
those that have gone ahead blindly and
given no heed to this important fact. 1t
often happens that in city filled with
daily papers one of them takes the lead
of all the others, and for long years
seems easily to hold its place, defeating
premacy and divide the patronage
of the reading public. Effort after
effort may be made to establish
and maintain rival papers, but it results
invariably in chagrin to their promo
tors. There are instances where news
papers have remained masters of the
situation, and arrogantly dictated terms
to everybody for almost generation.
But this was "before the war" The
newspaper that leads to-day must be a
different newspaper from the one of
those times. 1t very frequently hap
pens now that just when the monopoly
OF this one fortunate paper seems to be
stronger and more far-reaching than
ever, a new competitor springs up and
completely breaks down the seemingly
inSurmOuntable barrier that has in the
past resisted the attacks made upon it.
There have been similar experiences in
every city where newspaper has ever
been printed. Striking examples of this
fact are the cases of the Boston Globe
and New York World. A few years ago
they were nonentities in journalism.
Other newspapers powerful in intlu-
| ence and backed by immense wealth
had
ABSOLUTE CONTROL OF TIE FIELD.
They were mOnarchs of everything, and
exceedingly dictatorial and Indifferent
to public opinion. But they have been
| taught lesson, and to-day the positions
are reversed. Public opinion has trans
ferrcd its allegiance and support to the
newspapers representing q new era OF
thought and method, and success crowns
the career of those journals which have
the courage and the perception to cut
loose from old and threadbare tradi-
tons. AS matter of course, there is a
diSplacing of some old landmarks and
an upSetting of some historic preten-
sionS. But there is no time to stop and
think about such things in this progress
sive age. The race is to the paper that
has just appreciation of the exigen-
cieS of the times, and the fossils and
those who delight to dwell upon their
records and their histories are easily
distanced. Papers that once lead find
that they lead no longer, and in future
they can but hope to divide the hon
ors and profits with their more
successful contemporaries. The story
of New York and Boston is repeated in
st. Paul. There has been a journal
istic revolution here, the features OF
which closely resemble the revolution
in those two cities, differing only in the
size of the newspaper-reading circuits.
of which st. Paul and New York and
| Boston are respective centers. The
GLOBE has done in the Northwest what
its namesake in Boston and the World
| of Now Vnrl- hoxyn I, i
complete transformation of journalism
in the Northwest. sold things have
passed away; all things have become
new" There has been reversal of the
the positions of the papers. 1t has
not been a great while ago that the
GLOBE was away in the rear. To-day
it is far in front. The papers which
were once so far ahead of it are now
contesting desperately for second place
With that, however, the GLOBE has
nothing to do. There is anew dispense
| ton; new forces are at work, and the
paper that hopes to keep its head above
the water must rustic and get out of the
old rutS. AS matter of course, nobody
expects the deposed monarchs to con.
|
any degree of cheerfulness or satisfac.
ton. The king who has been driven
from his throne cannot think of the
revolution with any degree of compla.
cency. The success of the GLOBE is one
of the marvels of journalism in America
Less than three years ago it was I'm,
known and without influence.
| rrn-nAV TT A ,,rrr,
among the leading newspapers of the
country. Its growth in circulation and
business has been enormous; its ratio
of increase continues, with no signs OF
abatement; there is no doubt that its
future is assured. The GLOBE is proud
of its success, which has been achieved
in the face of serious obstacles. The
stranger, unfamiliar with the local in
terests of the city, encountering the op
position of long established newspapers
and the cordial support of the public
enabling the surmounting of the OBJ
stacles, is especially gratifying under
these circumstances. To what is thi:
great success due? Not to the fact O.
party pride or because the GLOBE is
cheap paper. Not to the fact that i
publishes an extraordinary amount Of
news. Other journals publish quite a;
much, and yet they are left behind il
the race. 1t is simply because the
GLOBE is paper for the masses of the
people. 1t is not heavy and dull, bu
bright and breezy, clean and attractive
| The Duhlio bplipyp that If ic honest o,,f
sincere and that its columns are not con
trolled by any clique or faction. They
can readily see that it is not a politica
organ, ready to approve of and support
| everything its party prOmulgates or in